Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... me . With all these things , I wanted neither wit , beauty , or money . In this manner I set out into the world , having all the advantages that any young woman could MARRIED TO AN EMINENT BREWER . 3 desire , to 2 ROXANA .
... me . With all these things , I wanted neither wit , beauty , or money . In this manner I set out into the world , having all the advantages that any young woman could MARRIED TO AN EMINENT BREWER . 3 desire , to 2 ROXANA .
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... things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he was a conceited fool , tout opiniatre ; everything he said was right , was best , and was to the purpose , whoever was in company ...
... things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he was a conceited fool , tout opiniatre ; everything he said was right , was best , and was to the purpose , whoever was in company ...
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With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott Daniel Defoe. thing in the world that ... things of value I had about me , which , though considerable in themselves , were yet nothing to feed a family , and ...
With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott Daniel Defoe. thing in the world that ... things of value I had about me , which , though considerable in themselves , were yet nothing to feed a family , and ...
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... thing after another , till those few things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I saw nothing but misery and the utmost distress before me , even to have my children starve before my face . I leave any one that is a mother ...
... thing after another , till those few things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I saw nothing but misery and the utmost distress before me , even to have my children starve before my face . I leave any one that is a mother ...
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... things belonging to them ; and one of his servants had another saddle with pistols , though plain , and the other a long gun , so that they did not go out as sports- men , but rather as travellers ; what part of the world they went to I ...
... things belonging to them ; and one of his servants had another saddle with pistols , though plain , and the other a long gun , so that they did not go out as sports- men , but rather as travellers ; what part of the world they went to I ...
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